Podcast Archive

Two in Five U.S. Children Live in a Low-Income Family

Across the United States, 41% of kids live in low-income families. While this statistic has fallen since 2013, it has yet to return to its pre-recession rate of 39% in 2007.

Regulations, Procurement Practices Have Hampered Innovation in Child Welfare Technology

This is the second in a four-part series about Casebook, a state-of-the-art tool to help child welfare workers track and improve results for children in their care. This installment looks at the issues Casebook was designed to address and the obstacles it has faced.

Providence Children & Youth Cabinet Produces Evidence2Success Action Plan

The Providence Children & Youth Cabinet, which coordinates public system and community leaders in the Foundation’s first Evidence2Success community, has published an action plan for the Evidence2Success approach through 2018.

Giving Kids a Healthy Start

Educare Atlanta launched the Healthy Beginnings System of Care in early 2011, integrating quality educational experiences with health services to ensure that children in the Atlanta Civic Site are healthy, developing on track, thriving socially and emotionally and achieving academic success by the end of third grade.

JDAI Celebrates 25 Years — and Significant Drops in Juvenile Incarceration and Crime

The report, JDAI at 25 draws on data from 2008 through 2016 and finds that — when it comes to detention use — sites that have participated in Casey's Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative are unequivocally better off today than they were before the initiative began 25 years ago.

Report Spotlights Strategies for Helping Low-Income Workers Succeed

What innovative strategies are helping workers navigate today's changing economy? And, what can philanthropy learn from them? These are questions asked and answered in a new report, Taking Action.

Because It Counts: Tools for Ensuring an Accurate 2020 Census

As the 2020 U.S. census approaches, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has produced a series of fact sheets and data tables to encourage an accurate record of people most often missed by the decennial count.

Former Casey CEO Doug Nelson Honored for Leadership

As part of its 25-year anniversary celebration, Living Cities recently recognized leaders, including the Casey Foundation's former president and chief executive officer, working to eliminate racial disparity and empower others to break down racial barriers.